Bodo League massacre

The Bodo League massacre occurred during the summer of 1950 as South Korean soldiers executed several suspected communist sympathizers and Workers' Party of South Korea members during the Korean War. The "Bodo League" was formed by South Korean dictator Syngman Rhee in order to force all of his political opponents into one umbrella organization, and he sent 300,000 communists to the Bodo League for "re-education". At the start of the Korean War, he had 20,000 more imprisoned, and he decided to order their executions out of fear of their collaboration with North Korea during the war. Anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 communist sympathizers and innocent civilians (with no connection to either communism or its sympathizers) were murdered, with between 100 and 1,000 people being killed in each county unit. The South Korean government concealed the massacre and blamed it on the communists, and survivors were forbidden from discussing it, as doing so would lead to suspicion that they were communist sympathizers. During the 1990s and onwards, excavations occurred at mass graves, revealing the horrors of the massacre.